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Seahorse Jooster mpreg (dear God!) and a lot of fry...
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(Also, IS, do you not have a "crack" tag? Did you not foresee that this day would come? I think it's in the Book of Revelations between the locusts and the seven-headed dragon.)
Edit: now with some unnecessary animations in the comments section. Seahorse Jooster - it's even more annoying as a gif!
Seahorses have an unusual reproductive strategy.


(Inspired by this photo of seahorses. Seriously how cute are seahorses with their intertwining tails and general glompiness?)
The gestation is also a challenging time for the pregnant seahorse's mate.

(The Snakehead fish can breathe air, climb trees and wipe out entire ecosystems.)

The mate visits the gestating father daily and performs a ritual reminiscent of the courtship. The father, meanwhile, produces massive amounts of the hormone prolactin to nourish the young.

Between 9 and 45 days later (depending on the species), the father gives birth. Seahorses can have as many as 1500 young,which are called fry.* The young are perfect miniature replicas of the adults.

*Science!canon. They are not, however, necessarily called Stephen.
(OK, huge apologies. If you put your head in your hands for a while and breathe deeply, it will probably be OK.)
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We'll dress them up in spats and greaveses
Or Pirate shirts with puffy sleeveses
Fish Head Aunt Agatha
Li'l Bertie Jr in all his sartorial splendor.
Splendid.
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Poor Bertie Jnr -- He will have 1499 little Jeevses after him trying to destroy the jacket (and then I had to animate his attempted escape because I just can't leave stuff alone):
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